UWB Information Technologies no longer offers personal home directories (U: drives) to new employees. For those wishing to have a personal home directory (recommended), UW through UWIT(Seattle) provides a mappable U: drive to all faculty/staff that is 30 GB in size.

The U Drive has to be enabled before use, and then it can be accessed or mapped as a standard drive letter on your computer.

To activate your U Drive:

To access your U Drive:

Off-Campus Access

To access your U: drive from non-UW networks (off-campus), Husky OnNet needs to be installed and activated on your computer. You will then be able to access it using either the quick access method or map a network drive method shown below. For more information about Husky OnNet please visit the Husky OnNet Information Page

Using Windows

Press Windows-R (Press the and R).

Type \\udrive.uw.edu\udrive; Click OK.

When prompted for Username and Password, enter as NETID\username, followed by your UW NetID password; Click OK.